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From: colas@celeste.inria.fr (Colas Nahaboo)
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Subject: Re: Eye of the Beholder
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Date: 21 May 91 18:06:04 GMT
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In article <1991May20.195524.22828@b17a.ingr.com>, maj@silk.Berkeley.EDU (Bilbo
Baggins) writes:
>  And the only 
> way you can say that SSI has only produced crappy stuff 

I did not say ALL they have done was bad, but that they have let people buy real
pieces of shit in the past. It is a company you CANNOT trust your money in, you
have to evaluate first. In the case of EOB, they made a good job. Did you try to
dissassemble the wargames on the Apple II ? horrible basic code, not even
compiled! FTL's Sundog was a true masterpiece on the AppleII, and more over on
the Atari ST. Too bad it wasn't ported to the amiga (or was it?)

DM took 3 years to come out after I first heard of it. the took I think 1 YEAR
in beta test. Now this is some user-respecting company!

> amiga and you keep your head stuck in the sand. Back when FTL and amiga both 
> were dreams SSI was writing some of the best and most original RPG's around.

Utter bullshit. SSI quality has really improved in time.

> PS. Let us take a look at great games that each company has produced
> 
> 	SSI:	PHANTASIE
> 		Wizards Crown
> 		Pool of Radiance

copy of wizardry

> 		Eye Of The Beholder

copy of DM

> 	FTL:	DUNGEON MASTER
unprecedented
+ sundog, unprecedented too.
(oids wasn't an original game concept)

better one good game than a pile of shit!

> 		Note here that the morons at FTL, who by the way make me sick,
> 		have never bothered to port it to the IBM machines.

Well, for me it is a proof that they have more taste than greed :-).